Archive for March, 2008
Last year our April Fool’s Joke was that FOX was buying Tech Crunch… but before long Tech Crunch pulled its own prank.
This year Michael Arrington seems to have tried to pull off a trifecta of gags:
- TheUnfunded counter punches TheFunded.com (TC gets accused of covering some dumb startups, but this one would have taken the […]
Tags: Blogs, Management|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Mar 31st
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For the past 2 years, the WatchMojo.com family has tried hard to get leading thinkers, technorati and pillars of the financial community to respect content creators.
But now, after a lot of effort, time and money, I realize that this isn’t simply trying to change an engine at 30,000 feet, in fact, it’s more like trying […]
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Jason Calacanis goes crazy this morning… but I wonder if he realizes the irony of his attack on YHOO.
First, his beef:
Yahoo made a huge critical blunder today: they decided to compete with their customers. Today they launched a content site called Shine dedicated to women. It looks really slick, and they make a point of […]
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ZenithOptimedia expects online ad spending in the U.S. to grow 23.4 percent this year, an upgrade from the 19 percent it forecast in December. Overall, global ad spend for online will rise 26.5 percent this year to $47.7 billion.
And something we’ve long argued (see our old post here), now being accepted as “fact”:
– Soft economy […]
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This isn’t your father’s Microsoft, let me tell you.
Since Ray Ozzie has come on board: MSFT has changed its tune.
I understand Google is powered by Linux, but times have changed.
Microsoft is so big in software that it is now looking at gaining market share in media and advertising, to do that, it understands that it […]
Tags: Google, M&A, Microsoft, Yahoo!|
Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Mar 30th
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Let’s get some cliches out of the way:
1. Don’t believe your own PR.
2. Listen when people give you feedback, more importantly, act on some of it.
3. Always find ways to improve yourself and your company.
These are all very nice cliches that we should all adhere to, for sure, but let’s stop the violin music for […]
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In 2006, I got sued by a big, big company that shall remain nameless. It was a fairly traumatic experience: I had not done anything wrong yet they came at me with so much firepower that I thought the world would cave in on me.
Against all odds, I managed to win. The best thing […]
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Between Yahoo! and CNET, I wonder if 2008’s storyline is: stay private, maintain control?
CNET will reduce costs, sure, but turns out the layoffs will also hurt revenues. Now is the time to be investing in digital, not scaling back. The companies that invested throughout 2001-04 ended up strengthening their hands… those who scaled back paid […]
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A few years ago (Bubble 1.0), GE’s Jack Welch set up a tracking stock for his “web ventures”. Suffice to say, it didn’t work. I’m not even sure if ever took off.
But reading about Google’s brain drain, I wonder, why doesn’t Google simply let those eager to leave a stable environment for startups with a […]
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